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John Gunderson
35-16-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from John Gunderson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record35-16-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 3 (UFC)L W L
DivisionLightweight
Age47
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Top 11% of Lightweights: absorbs only 1.71 significant strikes a minute and averages 2 submission attempts per 15 minutes.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameQuick Guns
NationalityUnited States
HometownHouston, Texas
Fighting out ofSyndicate MMA
Height5' 9"
Reach69.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthJan 05, 1979
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record35-16-2
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over John Gunderson’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min1.04
Striking accuracy27%
Strikes absorbed / min1.71
Striking defence58%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.67
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence11%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Lightweight.
Striking10
Defence80
Grappling / TD58
Cardio7
Chin limited sample71
Fight IQ45

Strike zones

Strike zones

John Gunderson

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD63.8%ACC 20%BODY21.3%FIELD 21%LEGS14.9%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Ground striker 49% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
63.8% acc 20%+1.7 vs field
BODY
21.3%+0.5 vs field
LEGS
14.9%−2.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 43%CLINCH 8%GROUND 49%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

3 UFC fights · 47 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

John Gunderson

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.67takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 2.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.70 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS48
1.67 / 15m−0.46 vs field
ATTEMPTS58
5.06 / 15m−0.34 vs field
ACCURACY39
33%−11pp vs field
SUB ATT86
2.00 / 15m+0.70 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked in Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 35-16-2. In the UFC: 1-2. John Gunderson’s last 3 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Full UFC career — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2010-09-15LYves EdwardsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Marquardt vs Palhares
2010-06-19WMark HolstDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs Team Ortiz Finale
2010-01-02LRafaello OliveiraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 108: Evans vs Silva

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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